Ill TAUI,K OF CONTENTS. 



PA(iEK 



Great Ant Thrash Raiding the Driver Ante Are Wasps Mimicked? Ants cat 

 Spiders -Form Mimicry of Environment -Tetragnatha extensa Mimicking Knots 

 and Ilnds Ciilnr Mimicry Ambush in Flowers M isnmena vatia Mimicking Wild 

 Flowers English Mimics Mimicking Hark and the Ground Natural Selection and 

 Mimicry Metallic (.'olors--('<icoon Mimicry - Cyclnsa caiidata and her Cocoon 

 Young Mimics A Savage's Decoration Protective Resemblance 352-!>77 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 ENEMIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HAIUT. 



I'erils of Sniders Season Changes Animal Destroyers Rate eat Spiders Sheep also 

 Cannibalism Goethe on Robber Wasps The Mud Dauber's Nest The Blue Wasp 

 hawking tor Spiders A Waspling Larva at work Wasp Poison The Cicada 

 Wasp Pipes of Pan The Tarantula Killer Special Selection Characteristics of 

 Captives Social Wasps Nest Parasitism The Pirate Spider A Spider Fend 

 Spider Duels Body Parasites Parasites on Eggs Saltigradc (i nests Parasiti/ed 

 Cocoons --Mold, Flies, and Birds Foolishly Hostile .Man Arachne as a Forest 

 KeciK-r Arachne a Philanthropist Influence of Fnemies on Industry Moulting 

 Tents Climate Covers Self Protective Industry The Tiger Spider and her 

 Bower Flis 4-notata The Jinrial of Lycosa Lycosa tarantula Trapdoor Spi- 

 ders Strange Towers and their Builders Secret Chambers in the Earth A new 

 Cse of the Abdomen Shaping the Cocoon 378118 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 DEATH AND ITS DISGUISES, HIBERNATION AND DEATH FEIGNIXU. 



The Decline of Argiope Fashions of Death First Stages of Mortality Sexta's Death ' 

 Record Death after Cocooning Limit of Life Lubbock's old Ant Queen The 

 oldest Spider Tarantula's Age Winter Habits Winter Dens Winter Tents 

 Hunting on the Snow Hibernation Sudden Resuscitation Death Feigning Not 

 Fear Paralysis, but 'Possmning The Peckhams' Studies Wonderful Shamming 

 A Spider Stoic Darwin's View Origin of Death Feigning Voluntary Hypnotism 

 among Men Purpose of the Habit Fabre's Studies 41!i I l"i 



I 'ART VI. FOSSIL SPIDERS. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 ANCESTRAL SPIDERS AND THEIR HABITS. 



Sites of American Fossils Scndder's Studies Lake Florissant Cause of Entombment 

 Manner of Entombment Volcanic Showers Oeningen Spiders Fossil Nephila 

 Climatic Conditions European Fossil Spiders Fossil and Existing Fauna The 

 oldest known Spider Eoatypus woodwardii Fossil Tunnelweavers Geological 

 Position of American Fossil Spiders Fossil Spinningwork Fossil Cocoons The- 

 ridiosoma Cocoon Unmodified Industry The Amber Tree Sources of Amber 

 Amber Land- Amber I!ay Trees running Amber Deep Sea Storehouses Break- 

 ing up the Storehouses Climate of Amber Land Insect Food of Amber Spiders 

 Spiders of the Amber Archea paradoxa Embalming Amber Insects A Romance 

 of Amber' Land . . 44<i-4G!l 



